REVIEW AND OVERVIEW WINTER 2015 LATI 50

Why Latin America? It’s big It’s there It’s here It’s a mirror It’s a paradox

Why Latin America? It’s big It’s there It’s here It’s a mirror It’s a paradox

Elements of Paradox Old-young, unstable-stable, rich-poor Gender Sports/Baseball Religion Politics Literature

Elements of Paradox Old-young, unstable-stable, rich-poor Gender Sports/Baseball Religion Politics Literature

Points of Entry Readings in Modern Latin America, 8 th ed Fiction: García Márquez Videos:  “Garden of the Forking Paths”  “Mirrors of the Heart”  “In Women’s Hands”  “Builders of Images”  “The Americans” [Latin and Caribbean Presence in U.S] Original documents (MLA website)

Course Organization (I) 1: Introduction  Why Latin America?  Why History? 2: Dimensions of History  Confronting the United States [Mexico+ Cuba]  How to Read Modern Latin America 3: A World of Multiple Truths: Magical Realism  Writers and Society [Puerto Rico]  A Death Foretold: Motifs and Allusions [Colombia] 4: Economic Development  From Export-Import Development to ISI [Argentina]  Neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus [Chile]

Course Organization (II) 5: Democracy and Dictatorship  Authoritarianism and Democracy [Latin America as whole]  Revolution: Why Then and Not Now? [Cuba + Central America /Venezuela] 6: Society and Social Movements  Race, Class, and Social Structure (part I) [Bolivia, Andes]  Race, Class, and Social Structure (part II) [Dominican Republic, Caribbean]  Women, Gender, and Empowerment [Chile]  Religion, the Church, and Liberation Theology [Colombia]  Culture and the Arts [Mexico + Brazil +]

Course Organization (III) 7: Inter-American Agenda  The Political Economy of Drugs [Mexico, Colombia, United States]  Immigration Policy [Florida, New York, California]  Obama and Latin America 8: Review and Overview

Some Central Themes Power and Inequality  Formal and informal: social, economic, political  Politics and social class  Correlates of Race Codes of Social Conduct  Hierarchy vs. social mobility  Gender and sexuality  Meanings of status and “honor”  Commitment and responsibility  Sources of moral authority Roles of Institutions  Religion and the Church  The state, the military, revolutions, and elections Art and Social Protest  The quest for identity  Art and the masses  Art as subversion

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